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FearNever shall I forget that evening! From behind the curtains of a glass door I peered into the large amphitheatre crowded with people. It was my first appearance as a lecturer, and most humbly did I repent having undertaken to try my powers in...

The Mud Larks TO THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER CAPTAIN DENIS NORMAN GARSTIN, D.S.O., M.C. ORDER OF ST. ANNE OF RUSSIA (10th ROYAL HUSSARS) KILLED IN ACTION NEAR ARCHANGEL, RUSSIA AUGUST 17th, 1918 I. The "Ferts" II. Otto III. A. E.'S Bath and Brock's...

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. - Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.Since my experiences in Blackwells Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I...

The Return of Clubfoot With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island, in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead, has anticipated him. It is obvious to Okewood...

New Poems TO SHAKESPEARE, IN 1916 "THE UNKNOWN CITY" O EARTH, SUFFICING ALL OUR NEEDS MONITION ON THE ROAD HILL TOP SONGS: I. HERE ON THE HILL II. WHEN THE LIGHTS COME OUT IN THE VALLEY OF LUCHON THE GOOD EARTH WAYFARER OF EARTH...

Newfoundland Verse Sea Variations The Toll of the Bells The Ground-Swell Magnolia Blossoms The Ice-Floes ? The Shark The Fog The Big Fellow The Morning Plunge In Absentia The Flood Tide The Pine Tree In Lantern Light The Secret of the Sea Loss of...

The Four Stragglers "I don't know about you 'uns; but our crowd was done in good and proper two days ago. Gawd! ain't there no end to 'em? Millions! And us running! What I says is let 'em have the blinking channel ports, and...

The Passing Throng Ballad of the Indifferent Whist Player, The Battle of Belleau Wood Being Brave at Night Beneath the Dirt Bill and I Went Fishing Book and a Pipe, A Boy or Girl? Boy's Feet, A Boy, The Bread and Butter Broken Wheel,...

The Charing Cross Mystery Hetherwick had dined that evening with friends who lived in Cadogan Gardens, and had stayed so late in conversation with his host that midnight had come before he left and set out for his bachelor chambers in the Temple; it...

Changeling, and Other Stories When it comes to the publishing of books, people are always pessimistic, and, in my case, always right. Success, I am sufficient of a heretic to believe, matters little, but friendship a great deal. And I could as little think...

Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier - A Memorial Volume of Selections from His Lectures and Other Writings The purpose of this volume is to commemorate the life and death of Reginald John Godfrey Bateman, first Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. It...

Our Union and Its Defenders - An Oration, Delivered Before the Citizens of Burlington, N.J., on the Occasion of Their Celebration of the Eighty-Sixth Anniversary of Independence Day, July 4th, 1862Having listened, with so much pleasure and profit, to the appropriate and impressive address...

Thomas l'imposteur - Histoire UNE MAISON DE SANT LA PRINCESSE DE BORMES LE CONVOI UN COUPLE UN POTE L'TT BRUT UN CAPITAINE LA ROUTE VERNE L'VQUE UN MAJOR LA FERME LE DIOCSE SCRUPULES REIMS L'IMAGE D'PINAL HENRIETTE PESQUEL-DUPORT LE MOT MADEMOISELLE THOMAS FAUX CALCULS...

Termini medici in lingua fennica occurrentes - Dissertatio academicaJOHANNE AGAPETO TRNGREN, Med. Doct., Chir. Mag., Chirurgiae et Artis Obstetriciae Professore P.O. General. Direct, rei Medicae in Finlandia locum tenente, Ordinum Imperialium de S:ta Anna in II:da Classe, cum orona Imperiali et de S:to Wolodimiro...

VirgilVirgil has always been, for one reason or other, the most popular of all the old classical writers. His poems were a favourite study with his own countrymen, even in his own generation; within fifty years of his death they were admitted to the...

Adrienne LecouvreurScribe and Legouv Augustin Eugne Scribe was born at Paris, December 24th, 1791. He studied law but manifested early in life a strong inclination toward the drama. The first of his plays to be favored with the full approval of the public was...

Wild Animals of the Rockies - With a List of Mammals found in Rocky Mountain National ParkAmong the frequent questions by visitors to the Rocky Mountain region are those pertaining to the wild animals. What animals are found here? How can they be identified?...

Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America - Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts, with an Introduction and NotesSince the sort of folk-song indicated by the title of this book is in all probability unfamiliar to many, I shall assume that my chief task in...

How to Collect and Preserve InsectsJohn C. Watson, Chairman; Thomas Park, Ph.D., Biology; L. L. Sloss, Ph.D., Geology; Roger Adams, Ph.D., D.Sc., Chemistry; Robert H. Anderson, B.S.C.E., Engineering; Charles E. Olmsted, Ph.D., Forestry; W. L. Everitt, E.E., Ph.D., Representing the President of the University...

CharlemagneCharlemagne, or Charles the Great, might well have been entitled Charles the Greatest. He was great in war and great in peacea great conqueror, great law-maker, great scholar, great organizer, great civilizer. He subdued savage nations, introduced learning, extended religion, encouraged the arts and...